Today in Bus hunting history...

[Alan Brase]

Yes, wow, good rescue.
It seems one quite often sees pretty decent frames for sale, usually with the nose skin cut off and a bus behind.
Can't remember one with a pickup, but there are certainly pickups with horrible cabs needing a complete new cab.
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Al Brase
Projects: 67 sunroof bug, 67 Porsche 912 Targa, 70 Westy
Dec 1955 Single Cab pickup WANT 15" BUS RIMS dated 8/55, thru 12/55
To New owners: 1969 doublecab, 1971 Dormobile
Vanagons:
80 P27 Westy JUL 1979, 3rd oldest known US
83 1.6TD Vanagon, 87 Wolfie Westy daily driver, swap meet home

[BarryL]

[Alan Brase]

[EmpiGT]

Probably way more than 200,000 to 1 odds.... I've never heard of this ever happening. My dad is a ford guy and knows I'm a total vw bus guy and tells everyone he meets to let us know of any vw busses they know off. And that alone turns out 1,000 to 1 odds of a lead. To have your dad take a pic of a 1960's photo of a bus a bus you found and are digging out the very same day???? That's got to be way higher odds. Like what the population of the world to 1 odds. Gives me chills too. I would have to build that cab back. And never sell it!

[cdennisg]

So, who has a salvageable early single cab bed to make this truck happen? I know of a later (66?) bed, but nothing that early.
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[earlybayjim]

[Okie Adam]

^^^THIS

Plus This
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=2252303

Equals DO IT!
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Oil Capital Air Cooled
55 Wolfsburg Kombi
60 Walkthrough Kombi
62 Single Cab
66 21window
67 so42
76 Westy
64 Karmann Ghia

[ToolBox]

[DoubleEh]

[cdennisg]

Oh, this is gonna get better.

Please do start that thread.
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[Fish]

[Who.Me?]

[Alan Brase]

It looks like the part with the VIN MIGHT be there. (different place on a pickup, BTW).
Lord knows I've looked at the one in my 56 a lot. Here's pics:

ALSO,
I think one could fix the rear gate. Buying new inner parts would make it easier.
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Al Brase
Projects: 67 sunroof bug, 67 Porsche 912 Targa, 70 Westy
Dec 1955 Single Cab pickup WANT 15" BUS RIMS dated 8/55, thru 12/55
To New owners: 1969 doublecab, 1971 Dormobile
Vanagons:
80 P27 Westy JUL 1979, 3rd oldest known US
83 1.6TD Vanagon, 87 Wolfie Westy daily driver, swap meet home

[DoubleEh]

[earlybayjim]

I looked at this bus 3 years ago... I thought it was just a basic 11 window bus...

It was on a property in Iowa near the Mississippi river, a very remote location with a 1 mile long goat path of a driveway. I was super deflated after learning I was 2 weeks late from getting a pair of 21 window buses. A widow of an old vw driver was trying to sell off her husband's buses. Her friend approached Robbie Wolf about buying them and he did so. This bus was left behind because it was much further into the woods and well it wasnt a "money" bus. Her neighbor drug it out of the woods back on to her property and that's where I first encountered it. I didn't think it was worth getting out in one piece! I ended up passing on it and the 3 bay window buses also left behind.

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1971 Chianti Red Westfalia x2
1985 Westfalia
1984 tintop

[earlybayjim]

Well I couldn't stop thinking about those buses... I ended up contacting her last year and buying the 4 buses and now I've just about got the last one out. 13 of the 16 drums had to be pulled to gut the brakes. They had to be rolling to get out as there was no way a trailer would ever make it down the driveway!

Anyway the bus is home and it turns out to be a 1964 tourist deliver so-22! It's so rusty and I have absolutely zero of the original westy stuff! What to do...
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1971 Chianti Red Westfalia x2
1985 Westfalia
1984 tintop

[Alan Brase]

Was this the stash that was near Lansing?
I'm 100 miles west (Waterloo, Cedar Falls) but 30 years ago kinda knew the guy that owned the salvage yard. His nephew kept telling me the guy had a couple oval window bugs.
There was also a small collection of early bay buses near Manchester, but driving by last winter it looked like many had been removed. Several quite rusty 68-70 Westys just didn't move me that much. The owner was ready to sell, tho.
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Al Brase
Projects: 67 sunroof bug, 67 Porsche 912 Targa, 70 Westy
Dec 1955 Single Cab pickup WANT 15" BUS RIMS dated 8/55, thru 12/55
To New owners: 1969 doublecab, 1971 Dormobile
Vanagons:
80 P27 Westy JUL 1979, 3rd oldest known US
83 1.6TD Vanagon, 87 Wolfie Westy daily driver, swap meet home

[earlybayjim]

[Braukuche]

Wasn’t there another gutted Turkis SO22 that was just found or is this the same one.
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Go Reds! Smash state!

Retirement is here!
1956 Ghia
1959 SO-23 Westfalia
1960 double cab
1960 Baja Bug
1963 stretched double cab
1962 Golde sunroof Ghia
1963 356 B coupe
1963 Notchback
1967 21 window less rusty now

[earlybayjim]